{"product_id":"impure-worlds-9780823231799","title":"Impure Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecords a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Arac is incapable of writing an essay that is not fresh, engaged, \u003cbr\u003e and lucid, and his unsurpassed eye for detail supports a rich and \u003cbr\u003e multi-voiced social vision.  Impure Worlds, which gathers his finest \u003cbr\u003e uncollected essays, confirms his status as a Bakhtin for the twenty-first \u003cbr\u003e century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Marshall Brown, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArac is one of the finest scholar-critics writing in the English\u003cbr\u003e language…he is a marvelous exemplar of the best that criticism has known\u003cbr\u003e how to think and do.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Bruce Robbins, \u003ci\u003eColumbia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406127178071,"sku":"9780823231799","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823231799.jpg?v=1730494621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/impure-worlds-9780823231799","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}